On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 09:23 -0400, Brandon Lozza wrote: > On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Rahul Sundaram <metherid@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So according to you any free software with a trademark is non-free > > software? Good luck getting anyone including FSF to agree with that > > interpretation. > > > > Rahul > > I'm sure they will. Trademark restrictions violate one of the four > freedoms and if you want I can ask Richard Stallman directly if this > trademark rule makes software non-free. Actually I'll just go ahead > and do it just to prove a point. > > If I wanted to Fork Fedora, and I called it Fedora, i'd soon see a > letter from Redhat legal. I'm not free to use the name. Thus, if I > fork Fedora I am required by trademark law to rename it or be in > violation. You might consider taking this discussion to the legal alias and talking it over there. It seems to be beyond 'devel' at the moment. thanks -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
